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Public-private collaboration on productive development policies in Costa Rica
Cornick, Jorge; Jimenez, Jorge; Román, Marcela - 2014
obstacles to higher productivity, as in tourism and FDI attraction, PDPs have been quite successful. When, on the contrary, it …
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The Impact of Doing Business Regulations on Investments in ICT
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2014
Using industry-level data from 14 OECD countries and doing business indicators of the World Bank, we analyze how country-level regulations of business activities affect investments in information and communication technologies (ICT). We find that investments in ICT decrease with the costs of...
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Productive development policies in Jamaica
Panadeiros, Mónica; Benfield, Warren Andrew - 2010
to create a better environment for productivity growth. This paper examines the PDPs in Jamaica and concludes that behind …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247130
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Information frictions, investment promotion, and multinational production : firm-level evidence
Carballo, Jerónimo; Marra de Artiñano, Ignacio; Volpe … - 2021
While countries make use of a wide range of policies to attract multinational firms, identifying the effect of such policies is difficult. Combining firm-level data on both the location of these firms' foreign affiliates and detailed service-specific information from Costa Rica's investment...
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Multinational production and "soft" industrial policies
Carballo, Jerónimo; Marra de Artiñano, Ignacio; Volpe … - 2020 - This version: January 2020
Multinational production has become increasingly important in recent decades. Countries resort to different industrial policies to influence the geography of this production. In this paper, we focus on a ubiquitous “soft” industrial policy that aims at reducing information barriers -...
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Information Frictions, Investment Promotion, and Multinational Production : Firm-Level Evidence
Carballo, Jerónimo; Artiñano, Ignacio Marra; Volpe … - 2021
While countries make use of a wide range of policies to attract multinational firms, identifying the effect of such policies is difficult. Combining firm-level data on both the location of these firms’ foreign affiliates and detailed service-specific information from Costa Rica’s investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229704
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FDI and long-term economic growth in Russia
Taganov, Boris - 2014
productivity from the viewpoint of endogenous growth theory. We then turn to the comparative analysis of FDI inflow to Russia and …
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What makes a productive Russian firm? : a comparative analysis using firm-level data
Wildnerova, Lenka; Blöchliger, Hansjörg - 2019
Productivity in Russia has fallen steadily over the past 15 years. This paper explores micro-level data to understand … the contribution of individual firms to aggregate productivity. Overall, firm-level data corroborate the decline in … aggregate productivity and a widening productivity gap against several European countries. They also show that the gap between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203207
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Potenziale entwickeln und Wissen teilen: deutsche Unternehmen in Afrika
Dohse, Dirk; Fehrenbacher, Sophia; von Carlowitz, Philipp - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 102 (2022) 7, pp. 563-567
Afrika ist ein Kontinent der Chancen, der in der künftigen weltwirtschaftlichen Arbeitsteilung eine deutlich größere Rolle spielen dürfte als bisher. Dennoch tut sich die deutsche Wirtschaft bislang schwer. Die digitale Transformation verändert die Investitions- und Innovationsbedingungen...
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Industrialization lessons from BRICS : a comparative analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
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